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You're being incredibly unfair. I read the article, and found the parent's comment to be almost a verbatim restatement of what it said. Your observation that A
by irq11 10y ago
You're being incredibly unfair. I read the article, and found the parent's comment to be almost a verbatim restatement of what it said.
Your observation that A16Z's tactics were presented as more nuanced than this strategy is also true, but that doesn't make the parent comment wrong, or even "uncharitable". The investment thesis, as presented by the article, is pretty much a truism. I don't find it to be interesting or insightful, and like you, I have to make arguments in my head as to why it might not be inane.
It seems to me that you're carrying one set of opinions about the subject, using them to interpret the issue in the most positive light, and then bludgeoning people who take a more critical view. You can call that "uncharitable", but it seems to me to be a literal interpretation of facts: A16Z's thesis was far less interesting than the tactics needed to get the deal flow to make it work.
- dang 10y ago> The investment thesis, as presented by the article, is pretty much a truism. I'll give you this much: what the article says about their 'thesis', in a single throwaway line having nothing to do with the rest of the (long) text, is a truism. Now let's apply the Principle of Charity again. What are the odds that that's because the founders were morons vs. that the article didn't go deeply enough into their investment thinking to say anything interesting about it? > It seems to me that you're carrying one set of opinions about the subject What opinions do you have in mind? The one I think I'm carrying is that HN comments shouldn't make uncharitable assumptions to set up caricatures, because that makes for lame, bilious discussion. That's not a small matter, because whatever discussion we have here, it's what we're likely to get more of.
- jacques_chester 10y ago> that makes for lame, bilious discussion Many of the most learned discussions I see on reddit are in the circlejerk subs. Particularly the "New School" ones.